Palestinian man dies in detention as Israeli West Bank operation continues

Israeli troops turned over to Palestinian health authorities on Monday the body of a Palestinian man who died after his arrest hours earlier in the occupied West Bank as a major operation in the flashpoint city of Jenin continued for a sixth day.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had received the body of 58-year-old Ayman Rajeh Abed from the village of Kafr Dan, just outside Jenin, after he was arrested around dawn on Monday. The director of the Wissam Bakr hospital in Jenin said the body bore signs of beatings and torture.